New project on Function-as-a-Service

RADON is an upcoming new H2020 project on software engineering for serverless computing, set to start in early 2019. The consortium consists of 4 universities (Imperial, JADS, U. Stuttgart, and U. Tartu) and 4 companies (ATC, Engineering, XLAB, and Praqma). I will be serving as project coordinator. Here is an abstract for the project work plan:

Emerging serverless computing technologies, such as function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings, enable developers to virtualize the internal logic of an application, simplifying management of cloud native applications and allowing cost savings through billing and scaling at the level of individual function calls. Serverless computing is therefore rapidly shifting the attention of software vendors to the problem of developing cloud applications that can use these platforms.

RADON aims at creating a DevOps framework to create and manage microservices-based applications that can optimally exploit serverless computing technologies. RADON applications will include fine-grained and independently deployable microservices that can efficiently exploit FaaS and container technologies. The end goal is to broaden the adoption of serverless computing technologies within the European software industry. The methodology will strive to tackle complexity, harmonize the abstraction and actuation of action-trigger rules, avoid FaaS lock-in, and optimize decomposition and reuse through model-based FaaS-enabled development and orchestration.